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Trent's Last Case

By:
E. C. Bentley

Narrated by:
Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
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Written in 1912 as a light-hearted reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories,
Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction.

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Trent's Last Case

By:
E C. Bentley

Narrated by:
Simon Vance

Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
83

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
46

Story

4 out of 5 stars
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Considered by many to be the first modern mystery novel,
Trent's Last Case introduces the gentleman sleuth Philip Trent, a freelance reporter and invistigator. Trent becomes involved in the case of the murder of millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson, slain while on holiday in England.

Written in reaction to what Bentley perceived as the sterility and artificiality of the detective fiction of his day,
Trent's Last Case features Philip Trent, an all-too-human detective who not only falls in love with the chief suspect but reaches a brilliant conclusion that is totally wrong.
Trent's Last Case begins when millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson is murdered while on holiday in England. A London newspaper sends Trent to investigate, and he is soon matching wits with Scotland Yard's Inspector Murth.

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Trent Intervenes

The Detective Club

By:
E. C. Bentley

Narrated by:
Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case. Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in 12 tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all succumb to his adept methods - even if the criminal sometimes escapes.

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Trent's Own Case

The Detective Club

By:
E. C. Bentley

Narrated by:
Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
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James Randolph is murdered early one evening and his body found a few hours later. When the police arrive, they discover that Randolph's safe has been ransacked, and discarded wrapping paper litters his bedroom floor. Perhaps by chance or perhaps by design, Trent seems to have been the last person, other than the murderer, to see Randolph alive. But this is only one aspect amongst many which connect Trent with the murder and stimulate his interest.

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Trent's Last Case

By:
E. C. Bentley

Narrated by:
Martin Jarvis

Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins

Abridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
5

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
4

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
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Trent's Last Case, published when Conan Doyle and Chesterton were both at the pinnacle of their respective literary careers, was the first detective story to use finger-printing as a means of detecting the criminal. The book was intended to be a gentle parody of the detective genre, only for it to be quickly hailed as a classic.

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Enigma

By:
C. F. Bentley

Narrated by:
Kate Zane

Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

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5 out of 5 stars
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When an alien ship crashes into the space station and diplomatic post Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance between Harmony's High Preistess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begins to dissolve. Suddenly they are caught in a web of deceit and intrigue as undercover agents for both the humans and the aliens vie for control not only of the space station, but of a new and unclaimed planet that may hold the answers many of them seek - or prove to be a deadly trap.

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Harmony

By:
C. F. Bentley

Narrated by:
Kate Zane

Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins

Unabridged

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Within a space opera landscape, Harmony explores the spirituality of a different human culture bound by a rigid caste system. Laudae Sissy, the new High Priestess of the world called Harmony, reaches across all seven castes of her society, seeking a new unity that will protect their isolation from the rest of the galaxy. But other cultures and races are testing their borders, searching for the most valuable commodity in civilized space.